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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Packaging services for deployment with Web Deploy


One of the many benefits of using the Web Deployment tool (Web Deploy) is that it allows you to standardize your applications and services in a consistent package that is compatible with developer tools such as Visual Studio and tools suited to both administrators and developers such as command line scripts and the graphical user interface provided by IIS 7.x and Windows Server AppFabric.

In addition, deployment to remote machines is firewall friendly, as the deployment endpoint is exposed over HTTP on Port 80. This eliminates the need to install other proprietary agents or create file shares to move deployment packages around, supporting a centralized deployment model for your applications and services.

In this recipe, we will use Visual Studio to package a WCF service application and deploy it by importing the standardized package into IIS/Windows Server AppFabric so that it can be prepared for hosting.

Note

Note that the Web Deployment...